Organizations have consistently reported benefits of IT Process Automation on patch management, compliance, provisioning, application release, configuration management, and more.
This paper takes an in-depth look at the common experiences you can expect:

Return on investment (ROI) builds over time, with returns increasing dramatically as more processes are automated.

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Organizations have consistently reported benefits of IT Process Automation on patch management, compliance, provisioning, application release, configuration management, and more.
This paper takes an in-depth look at the common experiences you can expect:

Return on investment (ROI) builds over time, with returns increasing dramatically as more processes are automated.

The fastest way to get a return is to get started. Success breeds more success as automation is adopted, and people constantly find new ways to use automation tools.

While you can certainly justify an automation purchase based on hard ROI, you get even greater value in the soft benefits received from automation.